Taxonomy
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Taxonomy |
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Arthropodan, opisthsogoneate, possess three pairs of mouthparts (a pair of mandibles and two pairs of maxillae) and a pair of poison claws, and one pair of walking legs per segment.
The trunk of Chilopoda has 15 to 181 pairs of legs, one pair to each trunk segment. The number of paired legs is a main character of taxa:
Scolopendromorpha with 21 or 23 pairs of legs;
Geophilomorpha with 31 to 181 pairs of legs;
Lithobiomorpha, Scutigeromorpha and Craterostigmomorpha, 15 pairs of legs.
Table 1. The list of Taiwanese Chilopod centipedes.
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Systematics of Taiwanese Chilopoda centipedes |
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Class Chilopoda |
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Subclass Notostigmorphora |
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Family Scutigeridae |
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Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Thereuonema tuberculata Wood, 1862 |
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Thereuopoda clunifera Wood, 1862 |
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Thereuopoda longicornis (Fabricus, 1793) |
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Subclass
Pleurostigmophora |
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Family Lithobiidae |
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Alaskobius takakuwai Chamberlin & Wang, 1952 |
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Bothropolys rugosus (Meinert, 1872) |
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= Bothropolys imaharensis Verhoeff, 1937 |
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Bothropolys richthofeni Verhoeff, 1938 |
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Lithobius bidens Takakuwa, 1939 |
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Lithobius bidivisa Takakuwa, 1939 |
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Lithobius chekianus (Chamberlin & Wang, 1952) |
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Lithobius holstii (Pocock, 1895) |
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Lithobius kiayiensis Wang 1959 |
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Lithobius lineatus Takakuwa, 1939 |
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Lithobius obtusus (Takakuwa, 1941) |
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Lithobius ongi Takakuwa, 1939 |
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Lithobius pachypedatus Takakuwa, 1938 |
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Lithobius ramulosus (Takakuwa, 1941) |
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Lithobius rhysus Attems, 1934 |
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Lithobius sachalinus Verhoeff, 1937 |
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Lithobius sulcipes (Attems, 1927) |
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Lithobius trichopus Takakuwa, 1939 |
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Family Henicopida |
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Cermatobius longicornis Takakuwa, (1939) |
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Cermatobius longitarsis (Verhoeff, 1934) |
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Lamyctes gracilipes Takakuwa, 1941 |
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Order Scolopendromorpha |
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Family Cryptopidae |
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Cryptops japonicus Takakuwa, 1934 |
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Cryptops nigropictus Takakuwa, 1936 |
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Family Scolopendridae |
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Otostigmus aculeatus Haase, 1887 |
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Otostigmus angusticeps Pocock, 1898 |
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Otostigmus astenus (Kohlrausch, 1881) |
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Otostigmus scaber Porat, 1876 |
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Rhysida longipes longipes (Newport, 1845) |
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Rhysida immarginata (Porat, 1876) |
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Scolopendra morsitans Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Scolopendra multidens Newport, 1844 |
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Scolopendra subspinipes Leach, 1815 |
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Family Scolopocryptopidae |
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Scolopocryptops capillipedatus (Takakuwa, 1938) |
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Scolopocryptops curtus (Takakuwa, 1939) |
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Scolopocryptops melanostomus (Newport, 1845) |
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Scolopocryptops rubiginosus (Koch, 1878) |
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Scolopocryptops sexspinosus (Say, 1821) |
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Order Geophilomorpha |
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Family Schendylidae |
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Escaryus japonicus Attems, 1927 |
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Escaryus makizimae Takakuwa, 1935 |
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Family Ballophilidae |
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Ityphilus boteltobogensis (Wang, 1955) |
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Family Oryidae |
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Orphaneus brevilabiatus (Newport, 1845) |
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Family Mecistocephalidae |
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Arrup holstii (Pocock, 1895) |
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Arrup sauteri (Silvestri, 1919) |
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Mecistocephalus changi Uliana, Bonato & Minelli 2007 |
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Mecistocephalus diversisternalis Silvestri, 1919 |
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Mecistocephalus japonicus Meinert, 1886 |
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Mecistocephalus karasawai Uliana, Bonata ＆ Minelli, 2007 |
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Mecistocephalus longichilatus Takakuwa, 1936 |
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Mecistocephalus marmoratus Verhoeff, 1934 |
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Mecistocephalus mikado Attems, 1928 |
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Mecistocephalus monticolens Chamberlin, 1920 |
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Mecistocephalus multidentatus Takakuwa, 1936 |
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Mecistocephalus nannocornis Chamberlin , 1920 |
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Mecistocephalus ongi Takakuwa, 1934 |
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Mecistocephalus rubriceps Wood, 1862 |
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Mecistocephalus yanagiharai (Takakuwa, 1936) |
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Proterotaiwanella sculptulatus (Takakuwa, 1936) |
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Tygarrup takarazimensis Miyosi, 1957 |
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Family Geophilidae |
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Pachymerium ferrugineum Koch, 1835 |
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Family Linotaeniidae |
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Strigamia japonicus (Verhoeff, 1935) |
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Strigamia transsilvanicus (Verhoeff, 1928) |